He was born in Reading on Aug. 13, 1943, the son of the late Carl B. and Katherine E. (Althouse) Clouser.

Carl was a 1962 graduate of Mt. Penn High School and also attended Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Canada. He was a U.S. Army veteran serving in Viet Nam. Carl attended Calvary Assembly of God Church in Marion, Indiana. He was a resident of Indiana for 30 years of his life.

Carl is survived by a stepmother, B. Arlene Clouser of Sinking Spring; a brother, James M. of Michigan City, Ind.; and a sister, Margery Quackenbush of New York, N.Y.

There are four half sisters: Mary Ellen Clouser of Dayton, Ohio, Elizabeth J. Halvonik of Sinking Spring, Susan E. Bartlett of Elsmere, Del., and Nancy L. Wells of Alexandria, Va. There is also a stepsister, Anna I. Balint of Freeport, Pa., and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services from Cramp Funeral Home Inc., 934 Centre Avenue, Reading, will be Friday at 3 p.m. Interment in Salem U.C.C. Cemetery, Spangsville, with military honors.